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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s earlier stint as Brazil’s president coincided with a huge economic boom. His country, by many measures, fared far worse under its next three leaders.
The politician known as Lula is back in office for an unprecedented third term, having campaigned on his record. But it will be hard for him to turn things around again, argue Marc-Andreas Muendler and Carlos Góes, two economists at the University of California, San Diego.
“Unlike in his first two terms, when domestic and foreign markets helped the economy along, Lula now faces strong headwinds at home and abroad,” they observe.
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Bolstering Brazil’s economy will be hard if there’s a global recession.
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Marc-Andreas Muendler, University of California, San Diego; Carlos Góes, University of California, San Diego
He faces strong headwinds at home and abroad as his third term as president gets underway.
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Politics + Society
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Howard Manly, The Conversation
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Denise A. Herd, University of California, Berkeley
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Mirya Holman, Tulane University; Emily Farris, Texas Christian University
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Jerald Podair, Lawrence University
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Economy + Business
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Michael Humphries, Touro University
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Ethics + Religion
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Neall Pogue, University of Texas at Dallas
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Joshua Long, UMass Lowell
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Science + Technology
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Brad Reisfeld, Colorado State University
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Jie Wang, UMass Lowell
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